Adblockers:
Consumer Rights Wiki: Find out how corporations are screwing you.
Digital Privacy:
Free Software: Control your technology, rather than be controlled by your technology.
Reddit: An echochamber that has some good information out there. As they changed their privacy data a lot of people are jumping ship and deleting their accounts and comments.
Video Gaming: Indie games are now all soulless Slay The Spire clones. A lot of Steam games are now just flavor of the month hyped up by Twitch/Youtube streamers. Have to put in more effort than before to find actually good games.
Wikipedia: Obtrusive popups begging for donations, but otherwise still has a treasure trove worth of useful information on it.
Apple: Proprietary, Backdoored, Vendor Lock-in. All around horrendous.
Amazon: Overrun with garbage products. Searching for things is painful.
Facebook: Got everyone to share all their personal information with them, and is now using this data to fund whatever AI slop comes out next.
Google: Turned every site into an advertisement. Search functionality is getting worse all the time.
Intel: Backdoored all their CPUs after the Core 2 Duo series with Intel Management Engine. Despite "claiming" they do not backdoor their products, end users have no way of proving this to be true or false due to its proprietary nature.
IOT: Every IOT device is a CVE waiting to be exploited, under the guise of being "convenient". Proprietary security cameras and proprietary "home assistants" are the worst offenders. It's like hiring a person to stay in your home and look and listen to what you do 24/7.
Journalism: A flawed system that incentivizes clickbait material and sensationalism over unbiased news communication. Seek out independent journalists who are doing good work.
Microsoft: Enshitification in a nutshell.
Smartphones: 24/7 tracking devices. Their only purpose is to serve brainrot content to its users. There are no good free/libre alternatives.
Television: The epitome of wasting time. The original brainrot.
Spotify: The perfect example of "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy."
YouTube: Infested with bot and soulless content. Use an RSS feed to follow the actually good channels, and ditch the "algorithm".
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